Coronavirus India lockdown Day 54 live updates | 30 municipal areas contribute 80% of COVID-19 cases
With 30 municipal areas accounting for almost 80% of the country’s COVID-19 cases, the Union Health Ministry on Saturday asked…
Cyclonic storm most likely to bring heavy rain in coastal Bengal districts
A cyclonic storm brewing in the Bay of Bengal lay 1,220 km south-southwest of Digha in West Bengal on Saturday…
How will the COVID-19 relief for MSMEs help?
The story so far: In his address to the nation, his third, on May 12, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced…
28 test favorable from same apartment building in Hyderabad
Twenty-eight persons, including three children, have tested positive for COVID-19 in the same apartment complex at Madannapet area adding bulk…
The postponed Olympics has actually broken some hearts, however it’s opened doors for many
Sandra Babu is a long jump and triple jump athlete from Kerala’s Kannur district. She was training hard for the…
Covid-19: Information of Rs 20 lakh crore relief plan
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday shared the breakup of the Rs 20 lakh crore relief package while…
No fresh insolvency to be started for 1 year under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code: Nirmala Sitharaman
NEW DELHI: The government on Sunday announced suspension of new bankruptcy filings on loan defaults for one year and raised…
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announces last tranche of stimulus package: Highlights
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday addressed the media to announce the last tranche of Rs 20 lakh…
Spraying disinfectants can be ‘harmful’, says WHO
GENEVA: Spraying disinfectant on the streets, as practised in some countries, does not eliminate the new coronavirus and even poses…
Cyclone Amphan live updates: IMD issues alert for West Bengal, Bangladesh coasts
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | May 17, 2020, 15:15:02 ISTCyclonic storm Amphan is moving over southeast Bay of…
Bundesliga: It’s live, and it’s kicking!
The red four-letter word on the screen said it all. Football is LIVE, it is alive and back on television.…
National portal to track migrants’ movement by trains and buses
Representative image (PTI photo)NEW DELHI: A central online repository on migrant workers moving by Shramik Special trains and buses to…
After China, India reaches out to LAC, African nations with medicine diplomacy
NEW DELHI: As China woos the world with Covid-related assistance, India is also looking to spread its medicine diplomacy net…
Gujarat ‘super-spreaders’ spike national tally
India recorded its highest-ever single day increase of 4,820 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, with Gujarat accounting for 1,057 of them.The…
Coronavirus package | Government throws open defence production and mining sectors
Steps to indigenise defence production by banning the import of some weapons and platforms while hiking foreign direct investment into…
Coronavirus | Government identifies informal urban settlements as ‘vulnerable’ zones
Informal settlements within cities have been identified by the Union Health Ministry as among the vulnerable urban settlements for the…
Coronavirus lockdown | For these migrants, Partition plays out on their never-ending journey back home
Crossing three States, mostly plodding in the furious heat 13 days on, Vikramjeet Verma believes the longest journey of his…
Centre tells States to publish details of migrant workers online
The Centre has asked the States to upload the details of migrants on an online dashboard that would help in…
Private sector in area discovers echo in 2017 ISRO Bill
ISRO scientists work on the orbiter vehicle and lander of Chandrayaan-2 in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Projects for…
8 lakh MT more grains allocated to States for migrant employees
The Union government had issued orders for allocation of nearly eight lakh metric tonnes (MT) of additional food grains to…
Strong is as strong does
The current scenario offers us an important lesson about the idea of strong leadership and the contradictory meanings of the…
Put money in the hands of people, states Rahul Gandhi
The Union government should not act as a sahukar (money lender) giving loans to people; instead it should help them…
Time to eliminate the luggage and modernise the LBW law
The 12th century French thinker and theologian Peter Abelard is credited with the saying, “Only god can judge the intentions…
Covid-19: Why people flee quarantine centres
Representative imageNEW DELHI: People fleeing quarantine centres, struggling with unhygienic rooms and toilets, being treated like untouchables, living in cramped…
Delhi: Series of quakes threat indication? Specialists dispute
NEW DELHI: Are four minor earthquakes in Delhi in almost a month a sign of danger for the region? Officials…
4,885: Most significant jump in India’s Covid count
NEW DELHI: India saw its biggest surge in Covid-19 infections, with 4,885 reported on Saturday, as Gujarat became the second…
26 migrant workers killed, 36 injured in UP accident
Food and belongings of migrant workers lie scattered on the highway after the accident, in Auraiya (UP) on Sat...Read MoreKANPUR:…
NDMA develops National Migrant Information System for movement monitoring and contact tracing
Representative image (PTI photo)NEW DELHI: A central online repository on migrant workers moving by Shramik Special trains and buses to…
Amphan to become extremely severe cyclonic storm on May 19, to cross Odisha and West Bengal on May 20
NEW DELHI: The India Meteorology Department (IMD) on Saturday said the deep depression over southeast Bay of Bengal intensified into…
HRD holds off announcement of pending examinations’ schedule for class 10, 12 trainees
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank The Ministry had last week announced that the pending exams would be conducted from July 1 to…
Nirmala Sitharaman press conference live updates | FM to announce fourth phase of economic package
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's fourth tranche of economic package is largely devoted to policy and structural reforms in key…
Madras High Court directs Centre to divulge number of migrant labourers who passed away on the way to their house States
Migrant workers travelling in a truck in Patna, to get to their hometowns. Photograph used for representational purposes only |…
Coal to air travel: Finance minister Sitharaman reveals structural reforms in 8 essential sectors
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced bold structural reforms in eight key sectors in the fourth tranche…
Govt allows entry of private players in future planetary, outer space projects
NEW DELHI: Bringing a paradigm shift in the space sector that till now had a government monopoly, Union finance minister…
HRD postpones announcement of pending exams’ schedule for class 10, 12 students
NEW DELHI: The HRD ministry on Saturday postponed announcement of the exam schedule for pending class 10 and 12 board…
Ahmedabad: 700 ‘super spreaders’ found coronavirus positive in a week
AHMEDABAD: At least 700 "super spreaders" were found coronavirus positive in Ahmedabad in a massive screening of vegetable sellers and…
FM announces easing of restrictions on utilisation of Indian air space
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced easing of restrictions on utilisation of Indian air space, benefiting civil…
FM reveals walking in FDI in defence production; restriction on specific imports of defence weapons
NEW DELHI: To boost Make in India in defence production, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said FDI limit in…
Low pressure over Bay of Bengal intensifies into depression: MeT
The well-marked low pressure area over southeast Bay of Bengal intensified into a depression on the morning of May 16,…
Centre approves modified DPR of Ujh Multipurpose Job in J&K
Representational photo. The DPR of Ujh project, which was declared as a national project in 2008, was initially prepared by…
Kerala to source weather condition inputs from 4 private companies
Terming weather inputs provided by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) inadequate, Kerala has decided to additionally source them from four…
Centre asks KRMB to stop A.P. from proceeding further on Krishna diversion prepares
River board told to convene a meet at the earliest In a significant move likely to follow in the ongoing…
Babri Masjid case: CBI court decides to continue more proceedings through video-conferencing
BABRI MASJID. File | Photo Credit: SUBIR ROY The Supreme Court on May 8 had directed the special court to…
24 migrant labourers killed in truck collision in Uttar Pradesh
A trailer truck carrying migrant workers from Rajasthan collided with a supply lorry near Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh. At least…
Coronavirus India lockdown Day 53 live updates | Centre to announce guidelines for lockdown 4.0 today
India's nation-wide lockdown is likely to be extended till May 30 with considerable relaxations in the green and orange zones.…
Business Continuity In Times of Covid | ETMasterclass
About the programme TOI Dialogues is an e-conclave bringing together some of the best-known thought leaders in India and a…
Stop acting like money lending institution, provide cash instead of credit: Rahul Gandhi to Centre
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the Centre should stop acting like a "money lender" for its…
Huge coronavirus recovery bill clears US House, fate uncertain in Senate
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walks past the Statuary Hall at the US Capitol on May 15, 2020 in Washington: AFPWASHINGTON:…
Coronavirus: 14 projects in 8 cities lead India’s vaccine hunt
BENGALURU: Reiterating that India, which supplies vaccines for various diseases to about 150 countries, is truly a global vaccine hub,…
US to donate ventilators to India, says Donald Trump
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has announced that the US will donate ventilators to India, moments after he underlined the close…